Rezonings Carry Opportunities and Risks for Low-Income Seniors
“Staten Island resident Dahlia Rivera says she can’t leave her Mitchell Lama apartment complex, where her rent is restricted, because she wouldn’t be able to afford anywhere else. It’s frustrating, says the retiree who worked in civil service for 30 years, because she has a child in Virginia and it’s also a steep climb up a hill to her apartment. Still, she calls herself lucky: She knows seniors who are forced to live with relatives with whom they don’t get along, and she’s noticed the older homeless people at the ferry terminal.”